Catch 22 on duplicate page titles

[ARMofficial]

Hi all,

I'm quite new to the SEO space so I apologise if all the information below isn't technically perfect.

I ran the SEOmoz pro tool for the first time a month ago (fantastic tool). It picked up a wealth of errors on our site that we are now working on.

the problem: we use dynamic pages to display job listings pulled from our database that have picked up many duplicate page titles and content.

For example:

_Landing page: _http://www.arm.co.uk/jobs/it-contract-jobs/sec=itcontractjobs

_Page 2: _http://www.arm.co.uk/jobs/1/-/-/2/itcontractjobs-/9999/2

_Page 3: _http://www.arm.co.uk/jobs/1/-/-/2/itcontractjobs-/9999/3

Following the results of the Moz tool we have now 'no indexed' and 'no followed' the dynamic pages and the errors have dramatically dropped, great!

However, on reflection we generate quite a lot of traffic to individual job's listed on our website. By no following the pages we have restricted passing on any 'juice' to these pages, and by no indexing we may be taking them out of Googles index completely. These dynamic pages and individual job listings do generate a lot of traffic to our website via organic search.

We do submit the site index to Google that should index the individual jobs that way.

So, the question is (I hope this is making sense), are the gains of reducing errors picked up in the moz tool (to improve the overall site performance) likely to outweigh the traffic generated on these dynamically generated pages by being indexed and followed by Google.

Ultimately we would like the static landing pages to retain a stronger page rank.

Any guidance is very much appreciated.

Best Regards,
Sam.

[ericpratum]

Why did you decide to noindex,nofollow the pages instead of canonicalizing them? It seems like that would solve these issues, no?

[ARMofficial]

I don't believe that would work as the results pages display different content.

I think I've got my head round this and its quite simple really, mainly an error on my judgement.

We've chosen to no index the dynamically created pages, but leave the follow on so that the actual jobs still get some juice and display in Googles index. I made the mistake of assuming that by no indexing the search results this would also block the googlebot from finding the actual individual job pages.